Why I like this story /

"On the assumption that John Updike was correct when he asserted, in a 1978 letter to Joyce Carol Oates, that "Nobody can read like a writer," Why I Like This Story presents brief essays by forty-eight leading American writers on their favorite American short stories, explaining why t...

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Xehetasun bibliografikoak
Beste egile batzuk: Bryer, Jackson R. (Argitaratzailea)
Formatua: Licensed eBooks
Hizkuntza:ingelesa
Argitaratua: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House 2019.
Sarrera elektronikoa:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv136bxvn
Aurkibidea:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • "The Fourth Alarm" by John Cheever
  • "A Father's Story" by Andre Dubus
  • "Use of Force" by William Carlos Williams
  • "Leaving the Colonel" by Molly Giles
  • "A Cautionary Tale" by Deborah Eisenberg
  • "The Wounded Soldier" by George Garrett
  • "Consolation" by Richard Bausch
  • "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" by Eudora Welty
  • "How Can I Tell You?" by John O'Hara
  • "Triumph Over the Grave" by Denis Johnson
  • "No One's a Mystery" by Elizabeth Tallent
  • "Who Is It Can Tell Me Who I Am?" by Gina Berriault
  • "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver
  • "The Magic Barrel" by Bernard Malamud
  • "Dare's Gift" by Ellen Glasgow
  • "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
  • "In Another Country" by Ernest Hemingway
  • "Like Life" by Lorrie Moore
  • "Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt" by William Goyen
  • "The Tree of Knowledge" by Henry James
  • "Sur" by Ursula Le Guin
  • "FRAGO" by Phil Klay
  • "My Father Sits in the Dark" by Jerome Weidman
  • "Th e Jilting of Granny Weatherall" by Katherine Anne Porter
  • "The Bridegroom's Body" by Kay Boyle
  • "The Doorbell" by Vladimir Nabokov
  • "Good Country People" by Flannery O'Connor
  • "Jubilee" by Kirstin Valdez Quade
  • "Winter Dreams" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" by Delmore Schwartz
  • "Goodbye and Good Luck" by Grace Paley
  • "Flight" by John Updike
  • "A Silver Dish" by Saul Bellow
  • "Flying Home" by Ralph Ellison
  • "Blessed Assurance" by Langston Hughes
  • "Big Black Good Man" by Richard Wright
  • "Travelin Man" by Peter Matthiessen
  • "Pet Milk" by Stuart Dybek
  • "The Pedersen Kid" by William H. Gass
  • "Bartleby, the Scrivener" by Herman Melville
  • "Old Boys, Old Girls" by Edward P. Jones
  • "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" by James Th urber
  • "Sonny's Blues" by James Baldwin
  • "The Laughing Man" by J. D. Salinger
  • "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid
  • "Fatherland" by Viet Thanh Nguyen
  • "The Pura Principle" by Junot Diaz
  • "Honeydew" by Edith Pearlman

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